"Woman walking around naked claims she’s a mermaid"

The young brunette was wearing only a black sports bra and had wet hair when cops found her near Millterton Road and Brighton Crest Drive in Friant around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, the Fresno Bee reported.

“She was wet. She said she had been in the lake, said she needed help and needed to be taken to the hospital,” Fresno Police Lt. Mark Hudson told YourCentralValley.com. “We did go through records after fingerprinting her and we still did not come up with her identity.”

The mystery woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 150 pounds. She has webbed toes on both feet. Officials said she could be between 16 and 30 years old and either white or Hispanic.

Link to Instapundit, who comments... "WELL, IF SHE IDENTIFIES AS A MERMAID, ONLY A BIGOT WOULD ARGUE WITH HER"

I have webbed toes, I'm a mermaid, but I don't go naked. Didn't realize there was anything odd about my feet until my sister announced that her newborn didn't inherit Daddy's webbed feet. I immediately took off my shoes and she pointed out my webbing. Seriously, forty years old before I learned I was deformed.